Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-10-07
WISCONSIN NEWS


Typhoid fever is prevalent at Hilbert.
Mushrooms are abundant at De Pere.
F. t, Yates will start paper at Wash
burn.
Railway shops are to be erected at
Tomahawk.
Eau Claire people pay $3.50 per ton for
coal.
The Eau Claire prohibition club is fit
ting up club rooms.
The Beef Slough rafting works have
been closed down.
81. NJ. Waldo sells the Watertown June
ton Hotel TO Jonas II. Stahl.
log boom 450 feet long is being built
at Tomahawk.
The publication of the Muscoda News
has been discontinued.
Navigation of the Menasha canal is
growing more difficult.
II. A. Taylor, of Hudson, who has been
dangerously i'll, has recovered.
Portage county farmers are putting in
a good many acres of winter wheat.
There are over $50 squatters holding
down indemnity lands in Sawyer county
Congressman Guenther is i'll at his
home in Oshkosh.
Ashland is agitating plan to secure
court of admiralty.
Green Bay will attem OF to revive the
roller skating craze this winter.
An elevator has just been erected at
Superior with a capacity of 5000 900
bzshels of grain.
A son of Lyman Abbott, d. D., of New
York, is first assistant in the Beloit high
school.
Five members of the family of Ole
Greenland, at Eau Claire, are i'll of ty-
phoid fever.
case of glanders has been discovered
at Appleton. The state veterinarian or
ders the animal shot.
Dlphtheria prevails in North La Crosse
to an alarming exteut. New cases of the
disease are reported daily.
The total receipts of the Grant county
fair, not including state aid, are 81, ,209.
The number of entries was $50.
The Manufacturers Bank, of New
Richmond, has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $4,000.
Ashland will seek to compel railway
companies entering that city to guard
the public from accidents at crossings.
Eau Claire is sending large number
of men to the woods to arrange the pre-
| liminaries for the winters logging cam
paiga
The circuit court for Iowa county con-
vened at Dodgeville Tuesday. There is
not a criminal case on the calendar
The total membership of the Neenah
Y. II. G. A. is 132. A lively interest is
taken in the association.
The retail merchants association of
Appleton, passes resolutions asking en-
ployers to compel employees to pay their
debts.
Appleton is now the second city in the
country In the quantity of paper pro
ducticn, the yearly output being exceeded
only by that of Lockport, New York.
A gentleman who has hunted on the
Horizon marsh for the past eighteen
years, AYERS that ducks are more pIenti-
full there this season than ever before.
4 Eureka man while boring q well was
stopped by solid obstruction at the
depth of sixty feet, and the dirt brought
| up revealed the existence of pure COZ
per
The common council of Rice Lake ha.
been pesitioned for special election to
vote on the question of bonding the city
to raise funds for water works system,
The Rock County WoUen's Christian
Temperance union will hold its annual
conference at GAINESVILLE next Wednesday
and Thursday.
The widow of Ezekisl Webster, an elder
| brother of Daniel Webster, was born with
the century but she reads all fhe current
| literature, hears well and converses with
great intelligence on the current topics
of the day.
Seneca E. Truesdeu retires from the
| editorial management of the Merrill New
| o publish trade journal at La Crosse
Arthus Bugbee, late OF the La Crosse
Chronicle succeeds Mr.. Truesdell on the
News